The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Title The Best Christmas Pageant Ever PDF eBook
Author Barbara Robinson
Publisher Samuel French, Inc.
Pages 60
Release 1983
Genre Drama
ISBN 9780573617454

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The six mean Herdman kids lie, steal, smoke cigars (even the girls) and then become involved in the community Christmas pageant.

Savage Pageant

Savage Pageant
Title Savage Pageant PDF eBook
Author Jessica Stark
Publisher Birds
Pages 116
Release 2020-03-10
Genre
ISBN 9780982617731

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Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. California Studies. Film. SAVAGE PAGEANT recounts the history of the defunct zoo, Jungleland, which housed Hollywood's show animals up until its closure in 1969. In it, Stark explores the concept of US American spectacle and its historic ties to celebrity culture, the maternal body, racist taxonomies, the mistreatment of animals, and ecological violence. With a hybrid, documentary poetics, SAVAGE PAGEANT reveals how we attempt to narrate and control geographical space and how ghosts (remainders, the sketch, unfinished stories) collapse the tidy corners of our collective, accumulative histories.

A Beautiful Pageant

A Beautiful Pageant
Title A Beautiful Pageant PDF eBook
Author D. Krasner
Publisher Springer
Pages 394
Release 2016-09-27
Genre History
ISBN 1137066253

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The Harlem Renaissance was an unprecedented period of vitality in the American Arts. Defined as the years between 1910 and 1927, it was the time when Harlem came alive with theater, drama, sports, dance and politics. Looking at events as diverse as the prizefight between Jack Johnson and Jim 'White Hope' Jeffries, the choreography of Aida Walker and Ethel Waters, the writing of Zora Neale Hurston and the musicals of the period, Krasner paints a vibrant portrait of those years. This was the time when the residents of northern Manhattan were leading their downtown counterparts at the vanguard of artistic ferment while at the same time playing a pivotal role in the evolution of Black nationalism. This is a thrilling piece of work by an author who has been working towards this major opus for years now. It will become a classic that will stay on the American history and theater shelves for years to come.

Call It Sleep

Call It Sleep
Title Call It Sleep PDF eBook
Author Henry Roth
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages 564
Release 2013-10-22
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1466855282

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When Henry Roth published his debut novel Call It Sleep in 1934, it was greeted with considerable critical acclaim though, in those troubled times, lackluster sales. Only with its paperback publication thirty years later did this novel receive the recognition it deserves—--and still enjoys. Having sold-to-date millions of copies worldwide, Call It Sleep is the magnificent story of David Schearl, the "dangerously imaginative" child coming of age in the slums of New York.

Here She Is

Here She Is
Title Here She Is PDF eBook
Author Hilary Levey Friedman
Publisher Beacon Press
Pages 290
Release 2020-08-25
Genre Social Science
ISBN 080708364X

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A fresh exploration of American feminist history told through the lens of the beauty pageant world. Many predicted that pageants would disappear by the 21st century. Yet they are thriving. America’s most enduring contest, Miss America, celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2020. Why do they persist? In Here She Is, Hilary Levey Friedman reveals the surprising ways pageants have been an empowering feminist tradition. She traces the role of pageants in many of the feminist movement’s signature achievements, including bringing women into the public sphere, helping them become leaders in business and politics, providing increased educational opportunities, and giving them a voice in the age of #MeToo. Using her unique perspective as a NOW state president, daughter to Miss America 1970, sometimes pageant judge, and scholar, Friedman explores how pageants became so deeply embedded in American life from their origins as a P.T. Barnum spectacle at the birth of the suffrage movement, through Miss Universe’s bathing beauties to the talent- and achievement-based competitions of today. She looks at how pageantry has morphed into culture everywhere from The Bachelor and RuPaul’s Drag Race to cheer and specialized contests like those for children, Indigenous women, and contestants with disabilities. Friedman also acknowledges the damaging and unrealistic expectations pageants place on women in society and discusses the controversies, including Miss America’s ableist and racist history, Trump’s ownership of the Miss Universe Organization, and the death of child pageant-winner JonBenét Ramsey. Presenting a more complex narrative than what’s been previously portrayed, Here She Is shows that as American women continue to evolve, so too will beauty pageants.

The Pageant Coloring Book

The Pageant Coloring Book
Title The Pageant Coloring Book PDF eBook
Author Nick Verreos
Publisher Nikolaki, Incorporated
Pages 72
Release 2017-09-19
Genre
ISBN 9780999454305

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Let your creative imagination go Pageant Wild! Fashion designer, red carpet expert and educator Nick Verreos, alongside his NIKOLAKI design partner David Paul, have teamed up to create a fresh and fun coloring book for pageant lovers and anyone interested in beautiful fashion design. In "The Pageant Coloring Book," Nick has hand drawn many magnificent beauty queens in fabulous gowns with elaborate details including intricate draping, bedazzled fabrications and Haute Couture-like designs. Use the sketches as a conduit of inspiration, allowing you to bring out your most extraordinary beauty queen dreams, creating your own fabulous Pageant Evening Gown Competition via this very entertaining and unique coloring book.

Restaging the Past

Restaging the Past
Title Restaging the Past PDF eBook
Author Angela Bartie
Publisher UCL Press
Pages 344
Release 2020-08-17
Genre History
ISBN 1787354059

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Restaging the Past is the first edited collection devoted to the study of historical pageants in Britain, ranging from their Edwardian origins to the present day. Across Britain in the twentieth century, people succumbed to ‘pageant fever’. Thousands dressed up in historical costumes and performed scenes from the history of the places where they lived, and hundreds of thousands more watched them. These pageants were one of the most significant aspects of popular engagement with the past between the 1900s and the 1970s: they took place in large cities, small towns and tiny villages, and engaged a whole range of different organised groups, including Women’s Institutes, political parties, schools, churches and youth organisations. Pageants were community events, bringing large numbers of people together in a shared celebration and performance of the past; they also involved many prominent novelists, professional historians and other writers, as well as featuring repeatedly in popular and highbrow literature. Although the pageant tradition has largely died out, it deserves to be acknowledged as a key aspect of community history during a period of great social and political change. Indeed, as this book shows, some traces of ‘pageant fever’ remain in evidence today.